Download User License Information For PowerApps And Microsoft FlowFeb 16, 2018. PowerApps is one of the services available in the Office 365 environment that enables us to create apps or forms for business and other uses without coding experience. We can connect against external data sources like SQL, SharePoint, Salesforce, etc... to develop an application. PowerApps has its own data source called Common Data Service.

SQL Coding Best PracticesFeb 14, 2018. While executing your procedure, the system will first scan through all system procedures and then user defined procedures. This means that the procedure might take more time for execution thus decreasing system performance.

Moq - Unit Test In .NET Core App Using Mock ObjectFeb 14, 2018. The Unit test is a block of code that helps us in verifying the expected behavior of the other code in isolation; i.e., there is no dependency between the tests. This is good way to test the application code before it goes for quality assurance (QA). There are three different test frameworks for Unit Testing supported by ASP.NET Core: MSTest, XUnit, and NUnit. All Unit test frameworks, offer a similar end goal and help us to write unit tests that are simpler, easier and faster.

Simple Visual Analytics Using Logic AppsFeb 13, 2018. Logic apps are one such way to get started if you’re not familiar with coding and looking to work your way around to automate your application processing. Logic apps have various usabilities with simple action flow creation. Today we will be looking at Visual Analytics using Twitter and Power BI on Logic App.

Database Naming Standards For The ProgrammerFeb 09, 2018. Let us face it, in most companies that programmers work for, we end up doing database work. I do not agree with this since I think the DBA or BIA should handle database programming and we should stick to what we do best… coding. Would you want a DBA writing code? I think not. With that said, here are database naming standards that I use when in this situation. DBA’s might not agree with how database coders name databases; stored procedures etc. but we need something.

Unit Test In .NET Core Application Using NUnitFeb 08, 2018. There are three different test frameworks that are supported by ASP.NET Core for unit testing - MSTest, xUnit, and NUnit. These allow us to test our code in a consistent way. In this article, I will explain about the unit test using NUnit.

Unit Test In .NET Core Application Using XUnitFeb 07, 2018. There are three different test frameworks for Unit Testing supported by ASP.NET Core: MSTest, xUnit, and NUnit; that allow us to test our code in a consistent way. In this article, I will explain about the xUnit framework.
the XUnit is an open souce test framework and main focus of this framework are extensibility and flexibility. It follows more community focus to being expand.

Automating SVN Check-Ins And Building A Project Via JenkinsFeb 05, 2018. A few weeks back, while sitting with my team, I learned that they run a Jenkins job which has to execute the automation scripts using the robot framework, daily around 1:00 a.m. The primary purpose of the job is to place all the necessary files and folders over the node machine of Jenkins (after copying them from the machine pointed as master on Jenkins), execute those scripts accordingly, generate the reports, and finally copy the output files back to the master machine to analyze the logs for the overall reporting and analysis purposes. This whole efficient job starts with a slack manual step which was enough to tag this activity &#39;not fully automated&#39; because they had to place the updated work regularly on the specified path over the master machine before leaving the office (this includes taking the updated code, files, and automation scripts, building the project to take the DLLs etc.). This may sound tedious but more than that, there is no sense to do it manually.

Introduction To Serverless Computing Using Azure FunctionFeb 01, 2018. Serverless Computing is driven by performing some action as a response to the specific event or trigger. While building serverless apps you don’t need to provision a server or infrastructure. Billing is based on resources consumed or actual time code is running. There&#39;s no need to build app to run the code, no need to set up infrastructure, no need to setup deployment infrastructure. Just focus on code.

Exception Handling In ASP.NET MVCJan 30, 2018. This default way of handling exception where we write our source code into the try bock and catch exception in catch block. However you can have multiple catch blocks for a try block. Even you can have Try –catch block inside Try block.

Continuous Integration Using TeamCity And Docker For ASP.NET CoreJan 29, 2018. Please read the previous posts before continuing with this one. I have discussed the basics of Docker and shown how to deploy simple and multiple applications using Docker. In this post, I will use the code from the first post and demonstrate the continuous integration with TeamCity.

SharePoint 2013 - Add Top Navigation Link To A Site Using REST APIJan 29, 2018. In this article, we will look at how to add links to the Top Navigation Bar in a SharePoint site using REST API. I will demonstrate this by using a little jQuery and REST API to add a link to the Top Navigation which makes it a custom top navigation link since we are using some code to achieve it.

View Customization With JavaScript In Dynamics 365Jan 24, 2018. You need to write a JS function with 2 parameters, when you’ll add it to view, first parameters will recieve rowData(value with metadata shown below for one cell) and userLCID(i.e. language code fof current user). Based on those 2 inputs you can decide what icon to show. And name of this function goes in Function Name: field in View’s property.

Publish Nuget Packages In .NET CoreJan 19, 2018. Now that you have a registry and key to upload your packages, let’s create and push a package. I am using here a simple .NET Core class library I wrote to work with CSV files, the source code can be found on GitHub. You can of course use any of your projects.

Expression Bodied Members In C#Jan 18, 2018. What is Expression Bodied Members?1) Expression Bodied member is introduced in C#6.0 and enhanced in C#7.0.
2) Expression Bodied is a new technique or implementation to make code concise and readable.
3) Expression Bodied makes the type member(Constructor, Destructor, Methods, Property, Indexer) defined in a single expression.
4) Expression Bodied members can only be applied to the below list of type members:
Constructor introduced in C#7.0
Destructor introduced in C#7.0
Property get accessor introduced in C#6.0
Property set accessor introduced in C#7.0
Methods introduced in C#6.0
Indexer introduced in C#7.0
The Syntax of expression body definition is:member =&gt; expression;
where expression should be a valid expression and member can be any from above list of type members.Suppose we have a method or constructor that contain a single expression or line of code. Then In spite of using the traditional way to write code inside a method or constructor code block, we can write them as a single syntax. Those members who can follow this approach is known as Expression Bodied Members.

Upgrading Your Application In Azure Managed KubernetesJan 18, 2018. In the previous article, we deployed an ASP.NET Core 2.0 API app in AKS (Azure Managed Kubernetes). Now, let&#39;s quickly look into how to upgrade the application when there is a change in code. Please make sure you read the previous article to follow through this one.

Custom Model Binding In ASP.NET Core 2.0Jan 17, 2018. In an earlier post I discussed how to prevent insecure object references by encrypting the internal references (e.g. table primary keys) using Data Protection API. To avoid duplication of code that encrypts/decrypts on every controller I used filters in that example. In this post I’ll use another complimentary technique: custom model binding.

An Introduction To Q#Jan 15, 2018. In this article, I will be explaining about Q# - the new programming language introduced by Microsoft for quantum computing. We will understand the data type, expressions, and statements of Q# with the help of code snippets.

Bulletproof Disposable Types In .NET CoreJan 14, 2018. Whenever I do code review on .NET projects, hands down the number one issue is developers not calling .Dispose() on disposable objects. Ever since .NET was released, I have been preaching how important this is. If not done properly, it’s most likely to create virtual memory issues that will eventually cause the application to stop and possibly freeze server or users’ computer.

Google Chart With ASP.NET Core And Visual Studio CodeJan 13, 2018. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL string and embed these charts on a web page, or download the image for local or offline use. The Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page. They provide advantages such as a rich gallery of visualizations provided as image charts and interactive charts and they can read live data from a variety of data sources. Users embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart. Many types of chart are supported, and by making the request into an image tag the chart can be included in a web page.

Explore Azure Cosmos DB Without Azure SubscriptionJan 10, 2018. Azure Cosmos DB emulator is an exciting tool for getting started with Cosmos Db. This allows us to play with Cosmos DB without even having an Azure Subscription. That means you can write Cosmos DB code in your .net application and view your data on emulator.

Introduction TO PowerApps And Creating Template With ItJan 09, 2018. PoweApps is a collection of software services and apps that work together to fundamentally transform and accelerate. It is provided by Microsoft as a service under Office 365 for non-technical users (no coding experience is required) to build business apps. It can be simple and fast.

Say Hello To Swift GenericJan 08, 2018. If you have not been introduced to Swift generic yet, then definitely you are missing one of the most beautiful things. In this article, we will try to understand generic in a simple way and we will see how we can beautify our Swift codes with generics.

Architecture Smells - Detection And RefactoringJan 05, 2018. The concept of “smells” is familiar within the software engineering community. The term “code smell” first appeared in the popular Refactoring book by Martin Fowler; it was informally defined as “certain structures in the code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring”. An excessive number of smells in a software system impair the quality of the software and makes the software hard to maintain and evolve.

Share Code Between ASP.NET Core MicroServicesJan 04, 2018. Microservice architecture or microservices is a method of developing software applications as a suite of independently deployable, small, modular services in which each service runs a unique process and communicates through a well-defined, lightweight mechanism to serve a business goal.

Working With Azure Storage Explorer In Visual Studio CodeJan 03, 2018. Visual Studio code is an open source source code editor developed by Microsoft which supports all major operating systems like Windows, Linux and Mac OS. It includes support all most all software development activities like debugging, Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring.

Using Global Constant Like A ProJan 03, 2018. In our code, most of the time we use constants (Ex: cell Identifier, some static text, maybe certain height). It’s good practice to use constants instead of variables whenever possible.

Xamarin.Forms - Dynamic GridViewJan 02, 2018. This article demonstrates how to create Dynamic GridView using Xamarin.Forms. If you ever need to show something in a data-bound grid view that is not in your data source, just create that extra row dynamically.

Hello World With TypeScript 2.0Jan 02, 2018. TypeScript is a language which is a super set of JavaScript language. It compiles the code written to plain javascript code. So all the correct javascript code is valid in TypeScript. Apart from that TypeScript provides extra features also, which is very useful for writing good code.

Creating A C# Console App From My iPhoneJan 02, 2018. Hyper IDE [link to https://github.com/polterguy/hyper-ide] is an Open Source web-based Integrated Development Environment. It supports 100+ progamming languages out of the box, and can be integrated with any type of command line tools, such as Git, compilers, etc. This leads to some interesting traits, such as the ability to actually create for instance C# console apps, from the browser on your phone. For the record, writing code on a phone, is not easy, and not something I encourage people to do in general. However, the border line use cases have interest.

Quality Of Software Is Getting Worse, Not Better (2018)Jan 01, 2018. For many years now, the theme for all my conference talks has been “Improving Code Quality, One Developer at a Time™”. My only goal with my sessions for the foreseeable future is all wrapped around this idea for these reasons I will discuss.

A Potentially Dangerous Request.form Value Was Detected From The ClientDec 26, 2017. This error can occur in any page, but mostly a client receives this error while entering a new or modified item / product in admin panel of any portal because in admin panel we mostly write html code to fill in blanks, and also to display the product feature in ordered or unordered list.

QR Code Scanner In Xamarin.FormsDec 23, 2017. This article demonstrates how to make a QR CodeScanner application using C# and XAML in Xamarin.Forms. QR codes are plastered on advertisements, billboards, business windows, and products. They appear to be very popular among marketers, although it’s rare to see anyone actually scanning one.

How To Create Azure Function App To Delete SharePoint Online List Using CSOMDec 19, 2017. Azure Functions are used for executing a small piece of code or “functions” in a cloud and you will pay only for the time your code executes. You can use development language of choice such as C#, F#, PHP, Java etc. Some of the key features of Functions are Choice of language, Pay-per-use pricing model, bring your own dependencies, integrated security, simplified integration, flexible development, and open-source. Please refer Azure Functions for more details.

How To Create A Simple Azure Function App Using C#Dec 18, 2017. Azure Functions are used for executing a small piece of code or “functions” in a cloud and you will pay only for the time your code executes. You can use development language of your choice such as C#, F#, PHP, Java etc. Some of the key features of Functions are Choice of language, Pay-per-use pricing model, bring your own dependencies, integrated security, simplified integration, flexible development, and open-source. Please refer to Azure Functions for more details. In this article you will see how to create a simple Azure Function using C# that will run whenever an HTTP request is received.

Generate Thumbnail From Live URL Of Microsoft Office And PDF file in ASP.NET MVCDec 13, 2017. Recently, I got a chance to create thumbnail images from the live URL. The URLs were not of images but of some DOCX file, some XLSX file, or PDF file. We don’t have any custom library which can directly generate the thumbnail from a live URL. So, here, we will learn how we can customize our code to generate the thumbnail in .NET.

Code Reusability In KotlinDec 12, 2017. In this article, I am explaining how you can reuse your existing code of Kotlin using Inheritance with examples and diagram.

Knowing When To Reflect With Caller Info AttributesDec 10, 2017. If you&#39;ve been around C# long enough, you&#39;ve probably had a need at one time or another to figure out some information about code that&#39;s being executed. It might be a method name, the file being executed, or even more specific details like the line number.

Partial View In ASP.NET MVC Using Entity FrameworkDec 10, 2017. A partial view is same as user control in ASP.NET MVC that is used for code re-usability. Partial views help us to reduce code duplication. Hence partial views can be used for views like as Header and Footer views.

Introduction To Format Specifiers In Visual Studio DebuggerDec 08, 2017. That is going to be tedious work if we need to keep evaluating the expressions in a lengthy code. Well, there is a way to avoid that. Using format specifiers (while debugging), you can force the evaluation of the expression.

Getting Started With Kotlin - BasicsNov 29, 2017. Google announced Kotlin as an official language for Android Application development in Google I/O 2017.Kotlin is a statically-typed language, developed by JetBrains and Open source Contributors in the 2011, that runs on JVM(Java Virtual Machine) and is compiled to JavaScript source code. It is very suitable for server-side application development with full compatibility of Java frameworks. You can use multiple frameworks like - Spring, Vert.x, Ktor etc. for web application development.

Saving Your Ruby On Rails Application Code To Github.comNov 28, 2017. In this article you will learn git configuration in git bash and git hub repository creation, add new ssh key in git hub and finally add all application files into git hub repository via remotely using with git bash for Ruby on Rails application version controlling.

How To Build A Kubernetes Cluster On Azure Using KubesprayNov 26, 2017. The concept of sticking our compiled code into containers is becoming quite popular at the moment, and for very good reason. If you develop for the cloud, and don&#39;t use containers or similar technology now, then you should really take a look at whats involved. The huge benefits of using containerized infrastructure/deployment are being pushed by the cloud vendors, and also increasingly being recognized by mainstream enterprise as an all round good egg and something worth investing time and resources into embracing. Containers and &#39;server-less computing&#39; are two technologies that most developers are going to have to embrace in the next short few years.

Creating My First ChatBot Using Angular(5.0) And Dialogflow (API.AI)Nov 20, 2017. Anyone who have ever tried to contact company through customer care center they know how slow and frustrating process it is. You remember that audio tape “press 1 for this, press 2 for this ,press * to go back to menu and blaa blaa blaa….“ say for example if you want to activate a simple caller tune to your phone number then you have to spent at least 10 min to know the code to activate that caller tune by hearing that audio tape and pressing so many number and finally if you had a good luck then only you able to activate you caller tune.

Introducing Visual Studio Live ShareNov 18, 2017. With Visual Studio Live Share you and your teammates use the same debugging session. You can collaboratively step through code or set breakpoints which are reflected in your teammate’s editor in real time. Each of you can independently inspect objects, use features like tips on hover, locals and watches, or make changes to an object’s value. When you are ready to make a fix, simply edit the code and your teammates will see your edits in their editor.

Creating CRUD API In ASP.NET Core 2.0Nov 17, 2017. ASP.NET Core gives a unified mechanism for creating MVC and Web API application. The key difference is that Web API will return JSON (or XML) and HTTP status codes instead of views, in order to communicate with the client.

Configure Application Insight For .NET Core 2.0Nov 16, 2017. We developers work hard to write code, but these QA guys find bugs in our code. We don’t have any choice but to find and fix the bug ASAP. After all this hard work we push everything to production, then new questions from people arise like why is this page slow? why is this operation taking time? why this and that? To answer these questions, we need proper logging mechanism to identify and takes hours of coding and analysis. What if we have a mechanism to track this with less hours of code to analyse and more time on fix. Application insights come to picture to solve our logging work with best analysis tools.

Passing Parameters To Middleware In ASP.NET Core 2.0Nov 15, 2017. I discussed in an earlier post that it is good practice to define middleware in a separate class and add to the pipeline using extension methods. We may also need to pass information to our middleware classes though and I’ve come across two patterns for this when digging into ASP.NET Core source code and other samples online.

Xamarin.Forms - Create A Login Page (MVVM)Nov 14, 2017. In this code we created the followings properties: Email, Password and the command SubmitCommand() that we will use in the Login command button in the Login page.
We use the ICommand interface that allows defining and implementing a command what we call commanding.

Auto Numbering For Custom Entity In Dynamic CRMNov 14, 2017. We are not adding any field for auto number using CRM Default solution. So, until now you should have one Entity created with no custom field in it (only default system generated fields). Now its time to write some code to see this auto number thing happen. what we have to do is to create an Attribute using C# Code and make that attribute to be auto numbered. we can even have some prefix or suffix also.

ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC FiltersNov 13, 2017. Filter runs after an action method has been selected to execute. MVC provides built-in filters for things like authorization and caching. Custom filters are very useful to encapsulate reusable code that you want to run before or after action methods.

Automating Code Deployment With Azure And GitHubNov 13, 2017. In this article you will learn about how to use ‘App Services’ and exploit Github’s source code management functionalities and version control in order to automate the deployment of your software and maintain a record of prior changes in order to mitigate extra effort in pushing to production.

Custom Search Using Client Side CodeNov 11, 2017. The Custom Search functionality is achieved through JS. The Search produces live results for each key press. This search can be used to filter the data table or html table data dynamically based on the key words entered. The below code explains the search for html table.

Introduction To Xamarin.Android Using C# - Part OneNov 10, 2017. Xamarin.Android will create native Android applications using modern language (C#), .NET Base Class Library Visual Studio. Xamarin is a cross-platform development tool. It solves dilemmas many developers face when developing cross-platform apps: separate coding languages and UI paradigms. With Xamarin, you can use C# for iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. And with Xamarin Forms, interface design for all three platforms can be accomplished within its XAML-based framework.

Enums In C#Nov 09, 2017. Suppose we are creating a program in which we have to use multiple named constants of similar type and on the basis of a particular constant we have to perform some operation. So what we normally do is initialize each named constant with a value. This may require a lot of effort if the number of constants is large. Also the look and feel of the code is not up to the mark. Have a look at the below program to understand more. The program contains months of the year. We have to put lots of effort to assign each month to a value.

Find The Installed SharePoint 2016 Edition Via C#Nov 06, 2017. Have you ever tried to detect the SharePoint Edition via C#? Regardless of the answer, detecting the SharePoint Edition via C# is not just a line of code as Build Number, to detect the SharePoint 2016 Edition, it will need to know the corresponding SKU.

MS Visual Studio Code - Guide To GitNov 06, 2017. Hello guys again, this is Muhammad Habib Jawady and today I will be showing you how to use MS visual Studio Code in order to work with git properly. This will be a hands on tutorial, I hope you will find this useful as the number of users of ‘Code’ has grown dramatically throughout the year and the need for a full tutorial on how to use it has became an urge to help people master its enormous number of features.

Debugging Tips - Part ThreeNov 06, 2017. While working on a complex code, we often come across situations where you need to debug lots of code to find/fix the issue(s). That also includes going through lots of methods (probably related or unrelated). .NetFramework provides a way to avoid unwanted &quot;Step in&quot; through the methods. Using DebuggerStepThrough (using System.Diagnostics) attribute, you can skip debugging of unwanted methods and reduce the debugging time to some extent.

Performance - SortedDictionary Vs DictionaryOct 31, 2017. Recently when I was analyzing a clients code base for performance, I found that they were using the collection SortedDictionary in many places in their projects. After looking on how they are using this collection type, I discovered that they really only needed the collection sorted once. So I figured, that if would be better performance to use just Dictionary and sort it once. Before recommending this change to their code, I needed to prove my theory.

Find And Replace Text In Word Document Using C#Oct 18, 2017. On Microsoft Word, we can find special text strings and replace them with new text strings easily. We can replace all the searched text automatically at one time and we can also only replace some of them from the searched results. This article will mention various approaches of the finding and replacing feature on the word document by using a .NET API Spire.Doc independently (without using any third-party code) as below.

What Is Version Control And Why You Should Use ItOct 09, 2017. In this article, we will learn what Version Control is, and what are the benefits of version control. Version Control means keeping the copies of your code or files from every stage in its lifecycle. Version control system allows us to manage all versions of our code with representing single version at a time.

Create Simple Azure FunctionOct 07, 2017. Azure functions allow up to run the code in a server-less manner. That means we do not have to create the VM to host the running code nor do we have to create a web application and publish code to web applications to run continuously.

Getting Started With ASP.NET Core MVC Apps Using VS CodeOct 05, 2017. In this article, we will discuss how we can create a HelloWorld app with ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Visual Studio Code. We will learn how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC application, how to create new Controller, how to create new View, and how to run the HelloWorld app etc.

HTML 5 Web Workers In ActionOct 01, 2017. In a nutshell, web worker is a JavaScript code that runs in the background (without refreshing the page) and without adding any performance overhead on the page. So that means, you can continue using your site by clicking here and there while web worker is doing its assigned functionality in the background.